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BRISLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brisling mean? 

BRISLING (noun)
  The noun BRISLING has 2 senses:

1. small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardinesplay

2. small herring processed like a sardineplay

  Familiarity information: BRISLING used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRISLING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

brisling; sprat

Hypernyms ("brisling" is a kind of...):

herring (valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled)

Holonyms ("brisling" is a part of...):

brisling; Clupea sprattus; sprat (small herring processed like a sardine)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Small herring processed like a sardine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

brisling; Clupea sprattus; sprat

Hypernyms ("brisling" is a kind of...):

sardine (any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned)

Meronyms (parts of "brisling"):

brisling; sprat (small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines)

Holonyms ("brisling" is a member of...):

Clupea; genus Clupea (type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings)


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